From above, the scene is pastoral---
a lush blanket of elds in the high-
lands of northwest Rwanda. e
ground truth is grittier. Land is so
scarce in the crowded countryside
near Musanze that farmers struggle
to cultivate every foot of the steep,
eroding hillsides. Land pressures
set the stage for the 1994 genocide,
in which one million were killed.
PASCAL MAITRE